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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1136, 1 September 1882, Page 2

Mr A. McDonald, M.H.R., after strenuous efforts has succeeded in pushing the Harbor Bill through the Lower House, yesterday j but it was lost in the Waste Lands Board Committee by one vote. - -i thM th ® tenders culled by bfietsm Denuuou and Grant enelueert fm-t|, q NJ?. Und Hettlemei.t Co., for the format on of about 8 miles of track iu the utVu oi* I '' wlaw * dlslriuta cluse to morrow The tenders called f or by Mr 8. M. Wilson for the supply of ten tons (more or less) of meadow hay, dose to-morrow *t noon. th^th^T’J XCee, W».v tolcan>><Uy condition. We can only reiterate our hope that his recovery la not far distant. v The Fiji planters have subscrilted £lOQior the purchase of a Watch and chain, to presented to “The Vn recognition of hirt uei vil ct! in bringing the inassaVreK of Euio}>vuuk in iihu South Hem before tho Inter-Colonial CunfuretKu wild the Inn trial authorities;

Nelly Faren, the soubrette of the Gaiety Theatre, London, took a benefit which realised £5OO. The flowers that were conveyed over the footlights and left at the stage door by her admirers filled two square cabs. When Nelly emerged from the theatre a deputation of a hundred handsome young men approached her and presented her with a basket of flowers and a pair of doves fluttering above it. Nelly captured the doves, pelted the young men with the flowers, and drove off in her Victoria, kissing her hand to the crowd, and beaming with satisfaction. Kate Vaughan had a capital l>enefit soon after, but Nelly beat her by £lOO at least. A female resident at Otaki was a few days ago fined £1 and costs for burning a rat alive It had been caught in an ordinary wire trap, and, instead of drowning the animal, the woman poured kerosene on its back, and then applied a light. Counsel for the defence contended that there was no cruelty in this method of killing a rat, and asked that the fine might be increased to £5 Is, to give his client the right of appeal. The Bench refused the application, and suggested that, as the client had another rat in tbe cage, she should do the same again, when counsel might rest assured the fine would be quite heavy enough for him to appeal against. L’Opinione makes a few amusing extracts from the accounts of public expenditure in Italy. It seems that over £5O was charged for ice to cool drinks’ for the clerks in the the War Offiice, and £6 for toilette requisites and cosmetics’ for the Ministers of grace and Justice. The sum of £lB was paid for a sapphire ring presented to a clerk by the Minister of Public Works, and the same clerk received also a present of £3O in money. Lieutenants Gilder and Berry of the U.S. Navy will continue the search for the Jeannette survivors. Engineer Melville left Tomsh, in Western Siberia on the 25th of July, on his return to the United States.

The Right Rev. Archbishop Fehan of Chicago, is to have a cardinal’s hat conferred on him.

A newly-married man appealed to the civil jurisdiction of the District Court at Carooar, a few days ago, for compensation for the annoyance of being “ tin-kettled. ” The Bathurst “ Free Press ” reports that Barrington Rothery brought an action against John Livingstone, claiming £lO damages. From the evidence it appeared that plainriff finding that the defendant intended to take part in the ceremony of “ tin-kettling, and went to defendant and cautioned him against coming near the house. Notwithstanding the caution, defendant went to plaintiffs house and acted in an offensive manner. The plaintiff was much annoyed, and his wife was very much frightened. The Bench thought a stop should be put to such proceedings as “ tin-kettling,'j whereby respectable people were annoyed and Insulted. They therefore gave a verdict in favor of plaintiff for £lO and costs.

It may be interesting to know that the second son of Garibaldi—General Ricciotti, who has been endeavoring to form an Italian contingent to aid Arabi Pasha—married Miss Gertie Hopcraft, the granddaughter of a veteran lamdon citizen, Mr Thomas Smith, who formerly carried on the business of a pubUaher and newspaper agent in Mincinglane. When Ricciotti first became acquainted with this ladv he found that the course of true love did not run so smoothly as he may have wished, Miss Hopcraft was studying the art of modelling at the Crystal Palace at the time, and he constantly went there to watch her at work. He greatly admired her skill, but became so importunate that he was “ordered off.” Nothing daunted by this, ho tried to obtain an interview with the young lady’s mamma, at Oak Lawn, Anerley, but encountered her father, who refused to admit him within the gates. Ricciotti, however, received more encouragement from Mr Smith, the grandfather, and it was not long before he led Mias “ Gertie " to the altar, Germany and Austria are suffering from a drought without precedent during file present century. Vienna is threatened with a failure of her water supply from the Mountain springs at Payerbach and Glogguitz, and even such mighty rivers as the Danube and the Rhine are shrunken to less than half their normal dimensions.